WHY WE ARE DIVIDED

You, my friend, have missed the point!

The truth is plain to see.

For as God’s word cleaves marrow and joint

It separates you and me.

Let me say then to your face

So you can understand

The gospel of God’s saving grace

Contains for you a reprimand.

I have considered the subtleties,

I have deduced and inferred,

I have unraveled the mysteries,

I accept the intent of God’s word.

I have studied the contexts

Who’s speaking, to whom, and why ---

I have even considered the pretexts

of men who pass truth by.

So I can say quite plainly

That you have rejected God’s plan.

You read the scriptures vainly,

Trusting nor God but man.

Rightly dividing the words of life,

A workman who feels no shame,

I will show you here in holy strife

That only you are to blame.

You are to blame for going beyond,

For adding to, subtracting from,

Not comprehending the context

nor even the Greek construction,

Wresting the sacred word of God

to your own sours destruction.

You are to blame for not agreeing

That what I tell you is true.

You are to blame for not seeing

That my eyes can see for you.

I hear you say you are doing your best

To grasp what truth you can,

To serve God, you say, in little things,

To love your fellow-man.

But you are self-deceived, by Satan led,

A cursed child, hell-bent,

Because you fail to understand

That what I say is what He meant.

So when He stands to read the roll

You will be found untrue.

For as the word cleaves spirit and soul

It separates me from you.

                                            W. REEL